

Almost every year a first rate choir records a traditional program of sacred Christmas music–and this year it looks as if it’s the Choir of

The Cäcilienmesse (Missa Cellensis in honorem BVM) appeared initially on Hänssler, at which time I welcomed it wholeheartedly. I’m very pleased to report that the

This is an odd performance. Despite mid-level singing mostly by voices that are not world-class, it has a little-engine-that-could way about it that makes it

The first two volumes in this series of Debussy’s complete orchestral works were, to put it kindly, pretty uninteresting, but this latest release is much

Leopold Stokowski’s transcriptions have been getting a lot of attention on disc lately. Most particularly, DG reluctantly released an excellent disc of Mussorgsky pieces featuring

Stokowski’s Bach transcriptions have received a great deal of attention on disc lately, but this is one of the very few recordings that has the

You would think that with more than 20 recordings of this opera available, with the likes of Caballé, Sills, Sutherland, Gencer, Gruberova, and Janet Baker

If you’re looking for a good, inexpensive performance of the complete incidental music to Egmont, you could do worse than this disc, but you can

On a late summer’s day in Prague in 1970, Holocaust survivor Eliška Kleinová opened a briefcase and handed a pile of music manuscripts to Joza

Stéphane Denève’s Roussel cycle for Naxos easily has been the finest ever recorded, and this concluding disc fully lives up to expectations. The Fourth symphony
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